And depending on the version you buy. They dropped their prices on certain versions to compete with MS recently. 5000 for one node, one cpu ain't that bad.
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MS SQL server and the cut down version MSDE would also be on the list of database engines to try. Unfortunately the only DBI driver that I can find that works is the ODBC one. This limits a number of the features that you should be able to use with SQL server. Other than that, I find that SQL server works pretty well.